Monetary Authority of Singapore Chief FinTech Officer Sopnendu Mohanty is awarded ‘Master FinTech and Regulatory Innovation Professional’ Certification from US-based GAFM

Monetary Authority Singapore (MAS) Chief FinTech Officer Sopnendu Mohanty is recently honored by the Global Academy of Finance and Management (GAFM) by awarding the first-ever Certification - ‘Master FinTech and Regulatory Innovation Professional’ for his untiring initiatives in the Fintech and Fintech Regulatory Innovation spheres.

Sopnendu Mohanty received the certification from GAFM Representative in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Fintech Association of Sri Lanka (FASL) Founding President and Asian FinTech Academy (AFTA) Founder & CEO Rajkumar Kanagasingam during the Singapore FinTech Festival at the Singapore Expo.

Mohanty joined MAS in August 2015 responsible for creating development strategies, public infrastructure and regulatory policies around technology innovation.

Within a few years of his leadership, Singapore has become one of the top global fintech hubs covering a wide range of financial asset classes including adjacent technology innovations in areas like insurance, digital assets, blockchain, artificial intelligence, reg-tech and green-finance.

Before joining MAS, he spent over 20 years in various leadership roles in technology, finance and innovation with most of his career in Citigroup.

In addition, Mohanty is a member of multiple advisory committees of multilateral global agencies, associations, universities, and governments and advises on Fintech, Innovation and Inclusion.

Mohanty extensively engages with global technology and financial services ecosystems and has championed notable collaborative public goods like API Exchange (APIX), Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF), Payment Rails, Data exchange platforms, and experimental programs like UBIN.

He is the Chairman of the Board at Elevandi which was created by MAS as an independent legal entity in 2021 to foster an active and open dialogue between the public and private sectors, to advance FinTech further in the global digital economy.

Under Mohanty’s leadership Elevandi is now rapidly evolving into a world-class knowledge platform with fresh insights captured from initiatives that connect people, in addition to flagship SFF programs like Green Shoot Series, Point Zero Forum, Elevandi Insights Forum, and more.

He is an avid speaker, global thought leader in FinTech, and advocate of accelerated transformation to a digital economy for solving financial inclusion and sustainability challenges.

He has co-authored several patented works in the application of digital technology in Finance and won many industry recognitions.

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* Global Academy of Finance and Management (GAFM) is owned by the International Board of Standards (IBS), a certifying body based in Colorado, USA which operates in over 40 nations worldwide. IBS is a charter member signatory to the Washington, D.C. based Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and has agreement with the Kansas, USA based Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) since 2004.

Contact Information

Rajkumar Kanagasingam

President

Fintech Association of Sri Lanka

enquires@srilankafintech.org